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Florida does not yet have PHA recognition. They do not appear in the UGLE list - UGLE grants recognition based on local recognition.

Folks who start in the north and travel out of the snow are called snowbirds. You start in the south and travel into the snow. Welcome to the forum "sunbird" brother DDWW!

Some GL web sites have lodge locators some don't even have contact data for their own grand offices. It's a great idea to try talking them into it. There's an application named MORI that is used by a few dozen GLs in the US. It's the biggest cross-jurisdiction application I know of. It's not...

Striking to the heart of the problem I think. What is the issue and is the write topic under discussion (pun intended)? I've heard older brothers complain that appendent bodies drain our lodges of members. I don't think that was really the problem either. I don't think most of the brothers...

It can work both ways. My mother lodge hived off several other lodges over its life since 1883. And then it absorbed several lodges. Some it absorbed back others had different origins. With consolidations the lineage of a lodge gets loops and twists. Founded by brothers from several lodges...

You phrased that well. As the three degrees represent youth, adulthood and age they also sort of represent heart, mind and soul. You're in the mind phase and the lessons learned are all about that. You've now been adopted two fold. Welcome again to the family.

The right versus left distinction is variation jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The meaning is the same. Each grand lodge has slight differences from other grand lodges and this is one such difference. As to what the meaning is, brother rpbrown has already answered that is something we learn as...

When I was working on my proficiencies in the early 1990s my mentor said he remembered that requirement being dropped at least a decade before so some time in the 1980s. I've asked around and similar seems to have happened in 2 other jurisdictions. So it might have been a rule long ago with...

Bro Benjamin, Master Mason wages include pride of accomplishment. Today you are well paid indeed.

You don't have to go to England to find one of the tiny lodges that admit both men and women or women only. There are several in the US. As our lodges do they have events that are open to non-members. Anyone can go to such an event without violating any obligation. Passing one of their...

That actually happened somewhere in California the year I was SW. After the surgeries she was prevailed upon to demit from lodge, much to the relief of everyone around as they did not want to put the issue on trial. But then she joined the Amaranth getting signers to state they'd known her all...

Thanks Bro Cornell! I recently learned something interesting about the recognition issue. I found the table of PHA GLs exchanging mutual recognition with California and Oklahoma PHA was on the list from GLofCA. According to the map at http://bessel.org/masrec/phamap.htm I figure many US GLs...

I have seen 3 degree versions that would not ruin the RAM experience but definitely a bad idea to go looking for it until after you have presented your Master Mason proficiency. On the other hand I've purchased a copy of a UGLE Emulation Ritual that was for sale at one of the California GLs I...

I would like the "fly on the wall" report for what actually happened but it's not a high priority item for me. Arkansas is a mess. All I really need to know is that pretty much only applies to individual brothers from Arkansas as hilarious stories for them to tell about the antics of their own...

Bro Bennylee, Different lodges have different experiences. When I read your post I concluded that your small lodge needs activity of all sorts and is likely struggling to keep PMs out of its line. I concluded that your large lodge already has plenty of active members. There are many ways to...

One person at a time mouth to ear works very poorly as anyone who has ever played telephone has seen. Group to group to group is a completely different story. Members of a group are very good at correcting each other. In computers it's the comparison between unprotected memory transfers and...

Before I petitioned the AMORC was on my list of organizations to consider. Their physical lodges are few and far between. That's why I stopped considering them at that time. They have no connection to Masonry and have no conflict with Masonry. Because I've been so happy with Masonry I have...

There are more than one sides to the topic. Arkansas has been a mess for multiple years. http://www.freemasoninformation.com/2012/12/the-grand-lodge-of-arkansas-continues-its-masonic-purge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-grand-lodge-of-arkansas-continues-its-masonic-purge

As it cascades to other jurisdictions at some point I will ask myself - Is it time for me to start showing up at SR again instead of the Shrine? I'm more active at the craft/blue lodge level than in any of the appendent bodies so they likely won't notice. Is it time for me to demit from the...